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>>>>> On Sat, 17 Aug 91 15:43:03 -0400, rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) said:

Dan> Put the cursor on the beginning of this line:
Dan> a "$Today
Dan> Do (query-replace-regexp "[^A-z]" " " nil)
Dan> It asks about '"', you say no with the DEL key.
Dan> It asks about '$', you say yes with the space bar.
Dan> It replaces the '"'!!!! etc.
Dan> Emacs 18.57 on SunOS 4.0.3.

rms> I do not observe this problem.  It asks about the space, then about
rms> the double quote, then about the $.  If I say no to the first two,
rms> then yes for the $, only the $ is replaced.

Ah ha, emacs' habit of putting the cursor after the string to be
replaced occasionally fools the average person when the string to be
replaced is only one character long.  One would expect the cursor to
be sitting on top of the candidate character, instead of after it.

The only way to fix the problem (err, mainly preserve my rumpled bug
reporting honor :-) ) is to put a little note about it somewhere in
the documentation.